Yeah, I think learning a common lingo is valuable. I always had
   leftist leaning, although even there I was more centrist, but as
   I enjoy language and playing with words, I found the conflict
   theory form of dialogue to be very easy to write in. It gave me
   an easy structure to how I ALREADY liked to write and it gives
   flourish, flair and convincing power. I've kept my own writing
   style in the meantime, but I had no trouble adopting theirs and
   incorporating it   == Functionalism is indeed a tough sell to
   that crowd, I think mostly because of the unpopularity of
   Skinnerism in educational institutions. I mean, there's such a
   thing as trying to be _too_ objective to the point where it's
   downright delusional sounding. tongue emoticon But you're
   absolutely correct. Social institutions love making their mark
   on a society, being a subset that wants to be the whole set -
   and universities especially so. I don't know if post-modernism
   is necessarily the "best" of all possible options but it's
   certainly fits the general psychological profile of your average
   college student: idealistic, driven, and allowing them to feel
   free from the bonds of their earlier schooling by giving them a
   loud voice - something they were denied from 5-17 in public
   schools - helps their "buy-in" to the university
   system-as-valuable. I'm generalizing of course, mostly to
   liberal arts and, having gone to one of the MOST liberal of
   colleges - I called it a hippie school - I fit right in -
   Hampshire College - I remember that "free" feeling really well.
   Makes you feel like somebody other than just a pupil. ==